I was shocked how the background to US Puppet state Ukraine was completely avoided by State Media (omission is important in propaganda). The US installed Yushchenko as President after the Orange Revolution in 2005. Yushchenko was the perfect puppet; he was a banker married to an American State Dept/ CIA agent). However when he came up for re-election in 2009-10, monitored by the UN, Yushchenko received only 5% of the vote.Yanukovych won the closely monitored Election, and began playing the EU against Russia for the best deal. Having been burnt by high interest loans from the EU (the money went poof! This is Ukraine, the most corrupt country in Europe), Yanukovych went with Russia in 2013. Kiev is on the Western (EU-leaning, NAZI-worshipping) side of Ukraine, so it was easy for Nuland, VP Biden’s NAZIs and the CIA to overthrow democraticly elected Yanukovych in the Coup in 2014. Eastern and Southern, Coastal Ukraine are largely ethnic Russians; Crimea, Donetsk and Luhansk were uphappy losing THEIR President to the Americans and broke away (much like Kosovo leaving Serbia). Russia had no interest at the time in the Donbas, but Crimea was important, so they annexed it with a plebescite. But after 8 years of atrocities and war in the Donbas between the breakaway republics and the NAZI-dominated Ukraine army, Putin used Clinton’s trick of recognizing “the independence and sovereignty” of the breakaway Donetsk and Lugansk (no more “free” than US puppet Ukraine) and providing “collective self defense” under UN Article 51 against puppet Ukraine, which had killed over 80% of the14,000 who died in the Donbas. This was the legal basis of Russia’s Special Military Operation (again analogos to Clinton’s Bosnian War), which the West shrieked was an “Invasion”. The Russians so far have used kid gloves since many of those they are fighting are ethnic Russian Ukrainians. US puppet Ukraine refused to honor the Misk II accords they signed in 2015, so Russia will not quickly accept terms (the US has made it clear this is another Forever War and it’s to Ukraine’s advantage to have ceasefires and more weapon deliveries. Look for Russia to move to Odessa next and take most or maybe all of the Coast of Ukraine. If Ukraine continues its attacks on the Breakaway Republics or Russia itself, look for Western Ukraine to receive a very bloody nose without the kid gloves.

They were formed from the Nazi history loving hooligans from football galleries of Galicia. May 2nd massacre in Odessa was one of their “triumphs” against “Colorados” which directly underpinned the declaration of independence of the Donbas republics against Hohol terrorists, which to this day shell, and murder civilians in in Donbas.
Mariupol came later, where those psychopaths were given free reign to torture, and murder “separs”.
Their “models” are OUN, UPA, Bandera, Shukhevych, SS Galizien Division, Nachtigall Batallion, and all Nazi criminals who murdered defenseless civilians during WW2.

But Azov and C14 and others are neo-Nazi paramilitary outfits, using SS insignia and Nazi hand gestures, predicated upon ultra-nationalist, white-supremacist ideologies. Is this really disputed? Whatever you think of the ‘special operation’ in Ukraine or past/present invasions by the West of ‘non-European’ sovereign states with similar euphemistic epithets and/or divisive/legally dubious pretexts, or whatever you think of Russia or the West in general, I don’t think it serves any purpose to get caught up in the cartoonish, fake moral binary erected by the media surrounding Ukraine, or to downplay the unsavoury battalions operating there. A2

It is for others such as Edward Curtin to expose this so-called monopoly of truth which upsets paid-up members of the religious elite. There is no logic without dissent and the calling out when awareness of calumny is out of sight.

In the world we live in there are more and more who glue labels to themselves or have them bestowed, and to which they are even proud to be illogical in the myths of their creation. One example very recently was the fact that Ukrainian anarchists are fighting against the Russian invaders – so when did anarchists begin to defend the State, Government or political ideology of their chosen country? Fighting authority does not mean opting for the lesser evil if there is one.
A lot that has been said by Chomsky and Hedges I do agree with but not in this context.